{"product_id":"the-cornbread-mafia-a-homegrown-syndicates-code-of-silence-and-the-biggest-marijuana-bust-in-american-history-9781493038497","title":"The Cornbread Mafia: A Homegrown Syndicate's Code of Silence and the Biggest Marijuana Bust in American History","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): James Higdon\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Lyons Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Lyons Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Organized Crime\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Back Cover\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the summer of 1987, Johnny Boone set out to grow and harvest one of the greatest outdoor marijuana crops in modern times. In doing so, he set into motion a series of events that defined him and his associates as the largest homegrown marijuana syndicate in American history, also known as the Cornbread Mafia.Author James Higdon--whose relationship with Johnny Boone, currently a federal fugitive, made him the first journalist subpoenaed under the Obama administration--takes readers back to the 1970s and '80s and the clash between federal and local law enforcement and a band of Kentucky farmers with moonshine and pride in their bloodlines. By 1989 the task force assigned to take down men like Johnny Boone had arrested sixty-nine men and one woman from busts on twenty-nine farms in ten states, and seized two hundred tons of pot. Of the seventy individuals arrested, zero talked. How it all went down is a tale of Mafia-style storylines emanating from the Bluegrass State, and populated by Vietnam veterans and weed-loving characters caught up in Tarantino-level violence and heart-breaking altruism. \\Accompanied by a soundtrack of rock-and-roll and rhythm-and-blues, this work of dogged investigative journalism and history is told by Higdon in action-packed, colorful and riveting detail.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lyons Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45134471987351,"sku":"9781493038497","price":1641.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781493038497.webp?v=1767907929","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-cornbread-mafia-a-homegrown-syndicates-code-of-silence-and-the-biggest-marijuana-bust-in-american-history-9781493038497","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}